Memoirs Of Elizabeth Hamilton

Elizabeth Benger

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Product Details

ISBN: 9781855069794
Publisher: Thoemmes
Publication Date: 30 November 2002
Format: Hardback
Language: English
Pages: 706p.

About the Book

Elizabeth Hamilton (1758-1816) was a prominent figure in the Scottish intellectual landscape of her day. An Orientalist, a Roman historian, and a philosopher of education, she published highly successful books in all these fields, as well as doing pioneering practical work for the cause of women's education. Elizabeth Benger's text is still the only biography of this remarkable woman. Written by a friend of the Hamilton family, it includes an autobiographical fragment, extracts from Hamilton's journals, and letters to her friend and fellow-philosopher Dugald Stewart. This work has much light to shed on the developing position of women in intellectual life. It should be of interest to researchers in a variety of disciplines.